14 Kept. 
BATRACHIA. 
BATRACHIA. 
F. Lataste, Actes Soc. L. Bord. (4) iii. p. 339, gives the following 
sketch of a partial classification of the Batrachia in a paper on Disco- 
glossus pictus : — 
Class : Batrachia. 
Order ; Salientia (vel Ecaudata). 
Suborder 1 : Lcevogyrinidoi (vel Proccclidce). 
(The order in which the families llanid(c, Hylidcc^ 
Bufonidm^ Hemisuhc, and PelohatUhe would be 
ranged, is indicated in a note.) 
Suborder 2 : Mediogyrinidm (or Ophthocdlidcc). 
Tribe 1 : Opisthoglossa. 
Subtribe 1 : Ecostati. 
Family: Asterophrydidce^ Cope. 
Subtribe 2 : Costati. 
Family 1 : Discoglossidcc (genera, Discoglossus^ 
Otth., and Bombinator, Merr,). 
Family 2 : Alytidoi (genera, Alytes^ Wagl., and 
Ammoryctis, Lataste). 
Tribe 2 : Aglossa. 
Knaxjer, F. Naturgeschichte der Lurche (Amphibiologie). Eine um- 
fassendere Darlegung unserer Kenntnisse von dein anatomischen 
Bau, der Entwicklung und systematischen Eintheilung der Amphi- 
bien, sowie eine eingehende Schilderung des Lebens dieser Thiere. 
Wien : 1878, 8vo, 340 pp., 2 pis. 
A general work on the structure, development, habits, &c., of the 
Batrachia. 
Lataste, F. On attempts to produce hybridization in Batrachians, 
Anura, and Urodela. Bull. Soc. Zuol. iii. [1878] pp. 315-328, pi. vii. 
Lowe, L. Ueber eine eigenthiimliche Art von Gelenknervenkorperchen 
beim Frosch. (Kleinere histologischo Mittheilungen.) Arch. mikr. 
Anat. xvi. pp. 615-617, fig. 13. 
Spengel, J. Ueber die Metamorphose der Amphibien. Verb. Ver. 
Hamb, iii. [1878] pp. 88-96. 
On the action of light upon the irritability of the skin of the Frog ; 
N. Wedensky, Bull. Petersb. xxv. p. 349 ; also M^l. Biol. x. pp. 273 & 
274. 
On the effect of dry and moist heat on Batrachia. B. Lautenbach, 
Am. Nat. xiii. p. 395. 
Note on the venomous character of the fluid secreted by the parotid 
glands of Batrachians. Sauvage, Bull. Soc. Acclim (3) vi. p. 607. See 
infra, ictericus. 
